Hog-waterer



(No Model.)

D. BRIGHAM,

I HOG WATBRER. No. 422,118. Patented Feb. 25, 1890.

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DAN BRIGHAM, OF SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

HOG-WATERER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 422,113, dated February 25, 1890.

' Application filed August 27, 1889. Serial No. 322,147. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAN BRIGHAM, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at South Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hog-7a terers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My improvement in automatic hog-Waterers consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully described, and shown in the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly sectional. Fig. 2 is a sectional. elevation thereof. Figs. 3, at, and 5 are views of the principal parts in detail.

In constructing my automatic hog-waterer I provide a suitable supply-tankA for reception of water. It may be made in any ordinary manner, and is connected by pipe 13 to the weight chamber O. The height of the Water supplied in watei trough C is rendered approximately uniform by means of floatvalve D. Float-valve D consists in part of the hinged metallic Weight CL,Wl1l0l1 is hinged to plate I) by means of pintle cl of apertured disk 6, secured to leather piece f, suspended upon pintle-iron f, and of metallic bulb g, having stem 72 which latter is riveted upon disk 6. It also consists in part of plate I), centrally apertured where bulb g projects through it, said plate being rigidly secured to wooden partition 2'. Block-weight E is secured to and. pivotally supported on hangers h, one of. which has its bearings in wall-recessj and one in a corresponding wall-aperture in trough 0. To prevent block E from warping it has inserted, in a longitudinal aperture therein provided, the wooden piece it. Thumbscrew F is disposed transversely in a female screw in block-weight E, and has rigidly secured thereto the metallic disk F, the block being recessed at Z for reception of the finger-piece of the thumb screw, as shown.

It will be observed that the thumb screw can be readily adjusted in block-weight E to operate in the manner desired.

The Water from supply-tank A. flows through.

pipe B into weight-chamber C, and thence throughthe open valve, as shown in Fig. 2, the metallic weight a being constructed to comprisehufficient weight, and so hinged as to close the valve D until the superior press- 5 5' ure of the blockoveight in its descent, in the absence of water in trough C, overcomes it.

The water in trough O in attaining its maXimum height elevates block weight E to the position shown in Fig. 1, whereupon medo tallic weight a descends by reason of gravity and pressing upon closes the valve, thus shut-' ting off the flow of Water into the trough, and it is obvious that as the water falls in the trough weight a is raised and the valve opened.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device forwatering stock, the combination, with the communicating tanks separated by an apertured partition, of a valve disk secured to a leather strip in one of said. tanks and seating against the aperture, and

a hinged metallic weight adapted to bear against the valve-disk on its rear side, and the float pivoted in the other tank and arranged to bear against the front of the valve, substantially as described.

2. In a device for watering stock, the combination, with the communicating tanks separated. by an apertured .partition, of a valvedisk. secured to a leather strip in one of said tanks and. seating against the aperture, and

a hinged metallic weight adapted to bear tanks and seating against the aperture, and 5 a hinged metallic weight adapted to bear against the valve-disk 011 its rear side, and the float pivoted in the other tank, said float being pivoted in the Walls of said tank and provided with an adjustable thumb-screw loo having the disk on one end thereof, said disk engaging the valve-disk, Substantially as described.

4. In a device for Watering stock, the com- 5 bination, With the communicating tanks separated by an apertured partition, of a valvedisk secured to a leather strip in one of said tanks and seating against the aperture, and

a hinged metallic weight adapted to bear IO against the alve-disk 011 its rear side, and

the float pivoted in the other tank, said float provided with an adjustable thumb-screw having the disk which bears against the valvedisk, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 15 in presence of two Witnesses.

DAN BRIGHAM.

Witnesses:

JAMES Roses,

J. M HARBAUGH. 

